How far a color sits from neutral gray at the same lightness: its intensity, from fully muted to the most vivid version a display can show.

Example Usage

Drop the saturation on the secondary buttons: they’re competing with the one action that should read as primary.
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Fig 4.4 Saturation

Saturation is the loudness knob, and an interface is conversation, not concert: text, surfaces, and borders live near gray so the single saturated action can carry the hierarchy. Two cautions. Desaturated is not the same as quiet: a pale screen can still be cluttered. And on today’s wide-gamut displays, “fully saturated” is louder than it was on the sRGB monitor where your taste was calibrated.